To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1857]
Summary
THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2185 |
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From Henry Coe 4 November 1857
Summary
Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2165 |
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- … 10 rows Haricot “White” -’- 4 -’- Negro “Black” then Dwarf. “Brown”. Such a mixture, I never before met with, and the result was altogether unlooked for or expected— The Haricots (White) are very little touched with the exception of here and there one— The “Brown” not at all. — I have the honor to be, | Sir, | Your obed t . serv t . | Henry Coe. | Gardener M r . C. Darwin— | & …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Coe, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Coe, Henry | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
